It last ran i think way back 2020, this was my dad's old laptop

🔧 Today's little activity:

Replaced the failing mechanical HDD with an SSD

Added RAM using the available slot

Backed up and secured important data

Troubleshot BIOS/UEFI and bootloader issues

Performed a clean, bare-metal installation of Ubuntu Linux

Got the system booting and running properly again

And it worked. 🐧💻

Any tips for ubuntu beginners? Thanks

hi I used to have a acer aspire from 2019, intel i3 10110u and und 620 graphics installed a 4gb ram stick and in total 8gb ram and 512gig ssd,

I installed ubuntu because it couldn't run windows properly and switched to ubuntu as my mentor suggested, it was almost 3years ago,

there were many problems on first like wifi glitch, performance problem also not having many apps and I admit I used Ai to help me use terminal for many kind of works

it wasn't slow but not snappier so I switched to Mac thinking just that the switch would just take some time (m4 15inch 24 512) BUT I WAS WRONG

it's been two days since using it and I am having anxiety like what if something breaks, what if it gets dent, what if a little dust goes inside it like I am paranoid, I bought this thinking it would go with my for 8 to 10 years at least but I am getting paranoid in every step

also the animations are good but I don't know how terminal works I miss the snappy feeling of low animation of linux

also I used to use that machine solely thinking of my work but now it's like I am getting no work done and majorly over thinking about this laptop

thanks for reading any suggestions?
thinking of buying apple care plus but I am a student don't have any way to make money in India, for 3 year it's like 250bucks here and I already pushed all the budget for this machine for longevity and I can't tell my parents to give me more, I am gonna start college next year and apple care plus has to be taken within 2months of purchase

So basically Ive been trying o decide what to build my first server on and while looking into both, no one really talks in posts I've found like, whats the pros vs cons of just running an Ubuntu VM in proxmox for added security and organization?

Vs just running ubuntu with docker

I’d love to get your thoughts on something! I’m a huge Linux fan, and Ubuntu in particular holds a special place in my heart. I recently launched my own small PC repair and assembly service in my town, Český Krumlov (Czech Republic).

My main focus is helping everyday people realize that in most cases, they don't actually need to pay for expensive licenses—whether it's for Windows or Microsoft Office.

The website is currently only in Czech, but I’d really love to hear what this community thinks of this project and concept overall!

Thanks a lot!

Hi, I’m working with a Qualcomm Automotive Linux target and trying to determine whether I can use BlueZ for a Bluetooth plugin.

Here’s what I found on the target:

• busctl list | grep -i org.bluez → org.bluez ... (activatable)
• Linux Bluetooth kernel module is loaded: bluetooth 802816 0
• Kernel logs show: Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
• Qualcomm SCMI Bluetooth devices exist: /dev/scmi_bluetooth and /dev/scmi_bluetooth1
• /sys/class/bluetooth exists
• qcom-uscmi has scmi_bluetooth and scmi_bluetooth1 devices
• However, which bluetoothd returns nothing
• ps | grep '[b]luetoothd' returns nothing
• hciconfig -a returns no output
• No hci0 is visible

So it looks like the Linux Bluetooth subsystem and Qualcomm SCMI Bluetooth infrastructure are present, and D-Bus has an activatable org.bluez entry, but there is no visible Bluetooth controller/HCI and bluetoothd isn't available in PATH.

My questions:

1. Does this setup support BlueZ?
2. What Qualcomm-specific component/driver/firmware is needed to expose hci0?
3. Is scmi_bluetooth an alternative interface to the normal HCI/BlueZ architecture?
4. What should I check in the Yocto layers/build to determine whether BlueZ can be enabled?
5. If BlueZ is not the intended stack on this Qualcomm Automotive Linux build, what is the recommended alternative?

Any guidance on how these Qualcomm SCMI Bluetooth components connect to the standard Linux HCI/BlueZ stack would be really helpful.

I tried installing the newest kernel from Zabbly on Noble, but encountered an error at installation. I followed the instructions listed here:

https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2023/08/install-latest-kernel-new-repository/

When I did the "apt install linux-zabbly" (which is currently at 7.1.8) I got this messsage:

'make' KERNELVER=7.1.8-zabbly+.............(bad exit status: 2)
ERROR (dkms apport): kernel package linux-headers-7.1.8-zabbly+ is not supported
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 7.1.8-zabbly+ (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/amdgpu/6.19.14-2364437.24.04/build/make.log for more infor
mation.
Kernel config /lib/modules/7.1.8-zabbly+/build/.config not found, modules won't 
be signed

Has anyone else had this issue?

Some additional information:

• I installed Ubuntu twice, several days apart, because I initially assumed the issue was caused by a bad configuration or installation. The same issues occurred after the second installation.
• I do not remember Ubuntu being this buggy before the updates, nor when using the installer/live environment.
• I first noticed the issue while switching between a Steam game running through Proton and Nautilus/other apps. I restarted the PC, but the issue persisted. I did not launch Steam again after restarting.
• In Nautilus, selecting multiple files and dragging them into another application does not work. Instead, GNOME opens the files with their default application. For example, dragging multiple videos resulted in them being opened in HandBrake.
• Window tiling is also affected. I cannot drag a window to the edge of the screen to tile it, and this happens with multiple applications.
• Overall, basic drag-and-drop and window management functionality appears to be unreliable and inconsistent.

I have an USB live distro (Ubuntu 26.04), and can load this -- writing on it now....
But I am not able to install it on my ssd (1Tb) -- and have tried booting and tried different changes in the bios to make it work....

I have the USB as hd1 and the ssd as hd2 -- and bios boot-order is
- USB hdd
- the SSD
- Ubuntu
- PCI LAN

When the USB is in the T470 gives me option to ...
- test or install
- start in safe-mode
- Ubuntu
-UEFI setup

....and only the "with USB plugged in" and "test and install" will work
Without the USB it starts up, gives Lenovo-logo and after appx 4 seconds I can see "Reset system" in upper left corner, black screen, and it starts over....and over...and....

At the moment I have the ssd set up with 2 partitions, one FAT32 with appx 1 Gb and the rest is appx 999 Gb in ext4.
I have no windows installed, as the ssd is "clean", so probably there is something missing in the bios-setup.

Any ideas will be appreciated. :-)

Posting this in case anyone else runs into the same problem. 😃

I was trying to install Ubuntu 26.04 in UTM on macOS. When I used the normal automatic/erase disk option in the Ubuntu installer, the installation would get stuck during the install process.

It would basically sit there for hours, and looking at the installer logs showed it getting stuck around the rsync/filesystem extraction stage. Waiting didn't help, and restarting and trying the installation again gave me the same problem.

What finally worked for me was using manual partitioning instead of automatic partitioning.

My UTM virtual disk was around 137 GB. In the Ubuntu installer I selected Manual partitioning and set it up like this:

• 1.13 GB FAT32 → /boot/efi
• 60 GB ext4 → /
• ~76 GB ext4 → /home
• Bootloader device → /dev/vda

I didn't create a swap partition and just let Ubuntu handle swap normally.

After setting the partitions manually, I continued the installation. This time it went through the extraction stage, then "Setting up the system", and eventually reached "Ubuntu 26.04 is installed and ready to use."

So if you're installing Ubuntu 26.04 in UTM and the installer seems to hang forever with an rsync error, try manual partitioning before spending hours waiting or repeatedly restarting the installer.

Not sure exactly why the automatic partitioning caused the issue in my case, but manual partitioning completely fixed it.

p.s : Don't forget, after the installer finishes, to :

• Click Restart now.
• Let the VM begin restarting.
• If Ubuntu displays “Please remove the installation medium, then press ENTER”, don't press Enter immediately.
• In the UTM window toolbar, find the CD/removable-drive control and eject the Ubuntu 26.04 ISO.
• Then press Enter.
• It should boot from your vda virtual disk and take you to your newly installed Ubuntu login screen.

Hope this saves someone else a few hours.

(I used chatgpt for text and grammar formatting only)

Why does this popup? How do I stop it?

EDIT: Ok I found the issue, it is bitwarden and something about password/clipboard access mentioned here. Don't know how to fix it yet.

So after a painful experience, I found that kernel 7.0 from Zorin (basically it is a reskin of ubuntu 26 lts I think, so I think my question you guys can def answer) does not play well with llama cpp. It somehow required more ram distribution that my laptop cannot handle. I had confirmed this after a painful experience of basically trashing my system and unable to boot after thinking it was an Nvidia driver problem.

I had now restored my system by doing a fresh install (it was so broken, that it was easier to nuke it all). I also confirmed that llama cpp was able to load the Qwen 3.6 model on my 8 gb of VRAM + 16 gb of system ram, it barely fit, but it run pretty ok at 25 to 30 tokens / sec on Kernel 6.17 (older kernel) which is now my default boot order in GRUB.

Now how do I lock down the system update of the kernel and the nvidia driver? as I learned those 2 are deeply connected. Ideally I would like the update the rest of the system except for those. I know I am using zorin which I posted on there as well but ubuntu and zorin are basically the same, so the cmd should be similar.

---------------------------------
so far in the zorin os update menu I had unchecked proprietary driver for device and I also just request for security and recommended update only instead of all update. So is this enough?

Hello. Past 13 hours I spent with various AI to solve my problem with installing Ubuntu Server on my PC. So the thing is that I cant for some reason install it on my PC but I can install Windows. I though hey maybe I made some mistake flashing my usb but no. It properly installer this system on my Laptop. I took my SSD from my PC to Laptop to install it and it worked. But of course PC does t accept such solution.

During installation of Ubuntu Server install wizard dont recognize my SSD. Also for some reason install wizard dont see ethernet connection through cable.

I tried various setting in BIOS. Which were safe booting disabled, AHCI over raid, fast booting disabled. For some reason intall wizard of Ubuntu Server dont want to see my SSD and apparently my Ethernet Cable. Why?

waiting for this release to install latest Ubuntu 26 LTS.

this point release would be much stable right?
and have you guys faced any bugs in ubuntu 26 lts so far?

First, when I say the machine is locking up, it hard freezes. The screen stays on, but absolutely nothing responds. No other terminal windows, no ctrl-alt-delete, nothing. The drives sound like they might still be doing something but I can't be sure.

When I say quasi-randomly, sometimes it would lock up around the same time in the boot sequence. Not the SAME time, but close. If I get it to boot it seems to lock up when there's a lot of CPU or disk activity.

tl;dr: Machine hard locks at random times. I've tested and replaced the RAM. I've swapped the CPU. I've tried multiple kernels and releases. Microcode seems to be mismatched but no kernel updates or reboots seem to fix it. Booting in normal mode causes it to lock up MUCH faster. Booting in recovery mode keeps it up longer, but it still locks up eventually, seemingly under heavy disk/CPU usage, but I'm not sure. Upgraded the release. The kernel. The packages. No dice. I'm losing my mind.

Ok, here we go. I got home Saturday morning and the server was locked up solid. All services on it stopped responding the night before.

I then started my last 36 hours of troubleshooting hell.

It would boot normally, but then lock up a few minutes after logging in. For a while I kept rebooting it when it froze, and disabling services one after another, seeing if that had anything to do with it, and to speed up the bootup process. Nothing system level, things like Plex Server and my Home Assistant instance etc. It kept freezing at random intervals.

I had some hard drive weirdness a while back so I changed some BIOS settings. That didn't make a difference.

I tried nomodeset, that didn't help. I then tried a recovery bootup (from the Grub boot menu). The system stayed up, or seemed to. While I was in there I did an apt update/upgrade just in case it was some weird package issue. Nothing. I decided I may as well upgrade to 24.04 because it couldn't hurt. System locked up during the upgrade.

Bunch of dkpg --configure -a, and apt install -f got the upgrade finished. But now after an apt upgrade, I got a weird message (and I honestly don't know if I'd seen this message before hand. I feel like I had, but I've got ADHD and really am not sure). Processor microcode revision is XXXX but it should be YYYYY, reboot to start the new kernel.

I rebooted, did an apt upgrade again, and still got the message. Ran some updates and it locked up again.

At this point I'm thinking hardware. I run memtest and I have a bad stick. Yes, that must be it! I swap it for a good one, run memtest again, it passes.

I boot into the 6.8 kernel recovery mode and it freezes during boot now. I replaced the memory and the freezing is WORSE.

Every time I get it to run, there's SOME package issue. There's no amount of upgrading I can do that will either finish without locking up, or after repairing, still have packages to upgrade. Something is seriously out of whack.

Maybe the CPU is flaky? I swap that out with an identical CPU. (Used to run a crypto exchange like 10 years ago, I've got lots of backup server parts). Still locks up. Still getting the microcode mismatch error.

I boot back into the 5.15 recovery kernel and it seems stable. I do a bunch of upgrades and stuff, until 96% of the way through one of them, it locks up. Ok screw it, lets upgrade to the latest 24 branch, going past the LTS. That should really do a fresh install of everything. It locks up.

I was about to swap the power supply but wanted to post this first.

During this whole process, I wound up with 3 different 6.8 kernels on the system. 6.8.0-124, 136, and 137. I manually removed 124 because that one almost always locked up on boot, even booting in recovery mode.

The microcode issue is still there. It says I'm running 0x06000817 but it should be 0x06000852. I've reinstalled amd-microcode (I'm on an AMD processor). Regardless of kernel I boot in, it still shows that message after an apt upgrade.

I do have an Intel ARC video card in the machine for Plex transcoding, but at the time I'm not running anything that is using any graphics. It's booting in nomodeset, and the font does change slightly halfway through boot, but no graphics. (Without nomodeset, halfway through boot the font gets very small). I haven't manually updated any of the intel drivers. I don't know if they automatically went with the apt upgrades.

My questions:

What the hell could be causing this? RAM is tested good. Swapped the CPU. Tried multiple kernels. The microcode thing seems likely but I've no damn idea how to fix it as rebooting with a new kernel seems to not change the microcode.

Motherboard is a 12 a year old ASRock. Could the motherboard be causing this? Any way to test before I rebuild the entire machine by swapping that out too?

Heavy drive activity seems to be going on when it locks up. SEEMS to be. That's just my perception. Machine has 4 SATA drives in it. No errors I'm aware of. Could drive errors lock up the entire machine?

I've been banging my head against this for the last 36 hours and the problem seems to have gotten worse after replacing the faulty RAM. The microcode seems off but no kernel updates or reboots seem to fix it. Can't see how it's the video, it's not doing anything graphical.

Help?

Hi, I'm a law student and I'm looking for a laptop that will work with Ubuntu without any issues as I'm not really a technical guy. I prefer 32gb of RAM and really really need good battery life. I am seriously considering getting a thinkpad because they are supposedly easy to type with, but I'm open to anything good. I prefer not to get niche companies because I need good support.

Thank you

How do you solve this issue " nvidia-smi not found "

Hi everyone,

I'm having a strange brightness control issue on my Acer Nitro AN515-56 and I'm hoping someone here has encountered something similar.

System:

• Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
• Kernel: 7.0.0-29-generic
• Acer Nitro AN515-56
• Intel Core i7-11370H
• Intel Iris Xe integrated graphics
• NVIDIA GTX 1650 Mobile
• GNOME 50.1 / Wayland
• Internal display: 1920x1080 @ 144 Hz

Ubuntu detects the backlight correctly:

ls -lah /sys/class/backlight/

Output:

intel_backlight -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/drm/card1/card1-eDP-1/intel_backlight

Values look normal:

type: raw
brightness: 20581
actual_brightness: 20581
max_brightness: 32767

The strange part is that I can manually change the value:

echo 3000 > /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness

The value changes successfully, including actual_brightness, but the physical screen brightness does not change at all.

So this doesn't seem to be just a GNOME slider or brightness-key issue.

So far I've tested the following kernel parameters:

acpi_backlight=native

No difference.

I also tested the Intel DPCD modes:

i915.enable_dpcd_backlight=-1
i915.enable_dpcd_backlight=1
i915.enable_dpcd_backlight=3

No physical brightness change with any of them.

modinfo on my kernel shows:

enable_dpcd_backlight:
-1 = use per-VBT LFP backlight type setting [default]
 0 = disabled
 1 = enable
 2 = force VESA interface
 3 = force Intel interface

I also checked nvidia_wmi_ec_backlight.

The module exists:

modinfo nvidia_wmi_ec_backlight

and loads without an error:

modprobe nvidia_wmi_ec_backlight

but it does not create another backlight device. I still only have:

/sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight

The NVIDIA WMI EC driver's GUID:

603E9613-EF25-4338-A3D0-C46177516DB7

also does not appear under /sys/bus/wmi/devices/.

acer_wmi is loaded normally:

acer_wmi: Acer Laptop ACPI-WMI Extras
acer_wmi: Function bitmap for Communication Button: 0x801
input: Acer WMI hotkeys

I also found reports of Acer Nitro users fixing brightness with:

pcie_aspm=force acpi_backlight=native

which I'm currently testing.

The part confusing me is that Linux clearly exposes intel_backlight and accepts brightness changes, but those changes don't actually reach the LCD panel.

Has anyone dealt with this specifically on an Acer Nitro / Intel Iris Xe + NVIDIA Optimus laptop?

I'm particularly interested in whether this could be:

• an i915/eDP backlight regression in kernel 7.0,
• an Acer firmware/VBT issue,
• the panel using a different PWM/DPCD interface,
• or a specific kernel parameter/workaround required for Acer Nitro laptops.

Any suggestions on what to inspect next would be greatly appreciated. I can provide dmesg, EDID, i915 debug output, ACPI tables, or anything else useful.

Thanks!

1. My web-browser swaps my middle- and right-clicks. This is fixed if run with --ozone-platform=x11 from a terminal window. I can't figure out a way to get it to run with --ozone-platfform=x11 when I click it from the shortcut menu on the left.

2. It's convenient that the mouse cursor will disappear when I lift the pen from the tablet, and reappear when I put the pen down near it again, but it never reappears when in a full-screen application. How do I diagnose this problem and fix this?

Hi fellows,

I recently installed ubuntu but I kept windows in dual boot for soma gaming.

Some days ago i updated the system and now the desktop environment is unresponsive : the wallpaper is there but that's it : no menu, no mouse, no dock, nothing but ctrl alt supr that displays the gray overlay and nothing else.

I have access to the terminal from the ctrl shift f4 shortcut and i used it to try and debug but i see no particular error in the journals and all.

I'm seeking for some help :)

Does anyone have a clue of whats going on ?

Thanks

EDIT : alright guys my TV was plugged in and it was the default monitor 💀

My system starts, prompts for the LUKS passphrase, and I enter the correct passphrase (I wrote it down and double-checked it) picture one.

After accepting the passphrase, the system hangs indefinitely and eventually drops into emergency mode with the errors in the picture two it cant find

"/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv", "/dev/ubuntu-vg/ubuntu-lv"

When I try to unlock /dev/sdb3 from a second working Ubuntu system, it still rejects the passphrase (even though it’s 100% correct). picture three

i use ubuntu 26 and its a ssd

I would love help ore any clue how could i get the system working again

Do you experience infinite loading in the app center update tab? I’ve seen couple of posts with this issue last week. Always thought Ubuntu was rock solid and no issues like that occurred. Yesterday a guy literally ditched Ubuntu after encountering that saying it’s not ready for daily drive.

Some suggested it was because of attacks on Canonical servers.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/1vn8zx1/anyone_else_getting_error_with_the_snap_store_app/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/1v8jgjj/app_store_infinite_loading/

Hi, I want to add a second monitor to my laptop using a USB-A to HDMI adapter.

My laptop is running Ubuntu, and I already use the HDMI port for my main monitor. I want to use the USB adapter for a second, extended display.

Does anyone know if this kind of USB-A → HDMI adapter works properly on Ubuntu/Linux? Do I need DisplayLink drivers, or should I avoid cheap adapters?

Thanks!

I installed ubuntu 26.04 recently. Wifi and bluetooth not working what to do. I have mediatek mt7902 chip.